{"product_id":"montreal-before-spring-9781771960113","title":"Montréal Before Spring","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTelephone wires, dark as a line in a schoolboy's notebook against the dawn; paint flakes from houses drifting down like dust; the hulking shadow of a desk that emerges, stock-still as a cow, in the moment of waking. Join poet Robert Melancon for a quiet celebration of his city, its inhabitants, and the language that gives it life.  From \"Eden\":  You go forth drunk on the multitudes, drunk on everything, while the lampposts sprinkle nodding streets with stars.  Robert Melancon, former poetry columnist for Le Devoir is a recipient of the Governor General's Award, the Prix Victor-Barbeau, and the Prix Alain-Grandbois.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for Montreal Before Spring \"Rich and deceptively simple... one of Quebec's major poets.\"--Globe \u0026amp; Mail \"Melancon deftly links seasons, the city space and their relation to age with his effortless metaphors ... A thread of romanticism throbs beneath [his] poetry, [which] is intoxicated, fascinated with experiencing the surrounding world.\"--New York Daily News \"There is a great tenderness in these poems...Melancon sees the big and the small and treats them with equal respect and curiosity...Donald McGrath's translation is invisible, seamless.\"--Michael Dennis, poet","brand":"Biblioasis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49084306653527,"sku":"9781771960113","price":9.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/montreal-before-spring-9781771960113","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}